CDV Photo of Major General George H. Thomas
Circa 1860s. Original Photographs measuring 4 x 2.75", showing the General in uniform. Toning and foxing to image and mount.
Civil War
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First Grand Annual Ball of Gen. G.G. Meade Library Association at Commissioner's Hall 37th and Market Sts.
Philadelphia: 1873. Folded leaf, 5.25 x 2.75", front cover plus two pages of text printed in red ink. Program. Creased, toned, bit stained.
Handwritten Letter Discussing Events During the Civil War in Trout Creek, New York
Delaware County, New York: 1863. 4pp handwritten letter sent by Daniel Wilson to his cousin Hiram, dated March 16, 1863 at Trout Creek, Delaware County, NY. Hiram, likely returned home from fighting in the Civil War, writes about how good the sleighing was in Trout Creek: "Samuel Jackson went by.....
State of New-Hampshire A Proclamation, By His Excellency, Joseph A. Gilmore, Governor of the State of New-Hampshire
New Hampshire: 1863. 4to, circular, 4pp. A scarce Civil War circular issued by the Governor of New Hampshire announcing quotas for volunteers needed to fill the rank of the Army: "The moral effect of such a reinforcement of our armies, following such victories as Gettysburg, Vicksburg and Port Hudson, will.....
The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1908. First edition. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt, 387 pp. Illustrated with many photographic plates. Fading and discoloration to covers, spine lettering faded, spine toned, light toning to pages.
Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade
Guthrie, OK: State Capital Printing Company, 1893. First Edition. Octavo, original green gilt decorated cloth, 495 pp, numerous illustration plates. First edition of this important Confederate Civil War memoir. Augusta, Georgia owner inscription to front endpaper. In fair condition with binding loose, pencil doodles and sketches to some blank pages.....
A Diary From Dixie
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1905. First Edition. 8vo, tan cloth with gilt lettering, 424 pp. First edition, first printing. Bookplate of W. Wilkinson to front pastedown. Front pastedown inscribed by Robert W. Pomeroy, a member of Camden's winter colony, together with "See P. 128." A good copy with.....
Mary Chesnut's Civil War
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981. 8vo, blue cloth, with dust jacket, 886 pp. First edition, first printing, with complete number line down to one and original $29.95 price intact. Van Woodward won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for History for this work. This copy inscribed by Van Woodward.....
Mary Chesnut's Civil War
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981. 8vo, blue cloth, with dust jacket, 886 pp. First edition, first printing, with complete number line down to one and original $29.95 price intact. Van Woodward won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for History for this work. This copy signed by Van Woodward.....
Rhythmic Ramblings In Battle Scarred Manassas
Philadelphia: T.D.D. Clark/Press of Harper & Brother Company, 1905. 8vo, 26 pp, stiff wrappers, illustrated wit portrait frontispiece and photographic plates of Manassas battlefield. A collection of Civil War poetry by a Scottish-born Reverend in Prince William County, Virginia. Includes poems glorifying the Confederate cause and Confederate leaders, memorial poems.....
The V. M. I. New Market Cadets - Biographical Sketches of all Members of the Virginia Military Institute Corps of Cadets who fought in The Battle of New Market May 15, 1864
Charlottesville, Virginia: The Michie Company, 1933. 6.25 x 9.25", light grey covers with black lettering, 7 black and white illustrations including a fold out map, 272 pp. "Biographical Sketches of all Members of the Virginia Military Institute Corps of Cadets who fought in the Battle of New Market May 15.....
Letter by a Confederate Chaplain in Texas During the Civil War
Galveston: 1864. 4to, handwritten letter, 1pp, signed "J.H. Cox" and sent to W.G. Williams from Galveston on May 11, 1864. Cox was a Chaplain serving under a Colonel Cook, and he writes about Williams potentially replacing him in the role so that he could go home: "Col Cook...tells me that.....
Fast and Loose in Dixie. An Unprejudiced Narrative of Personal Experience as a Prisoner of War at Libby, Macon, Savannah, and Charleston
New York: The Authors Publishing Company, 1880. First edition. 8vo, 310pp, original brown with with black and gilt decoration/lettering. Rare narrative of the author's experiences being a Union soldier and prisoner of war of the Confederacy. This author was a Captain with the Ninth New Jersey Veteran Volunteers. A bright.....
Varina
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2018. Hardcover, 352 pp, purple cloth, with pictorial slipcase. Number 36 of 71 specially bound copies from the first printing signed by Frazier. A fine copy.
Prison Life During The Rebellion Being a Brief Narrative of The Miseries and Sufferings of Six Hundred Confederate Prisoners Sent from Fort Delaware to Morris Island to be Punished
Singer's Glen, VA: Joseph Funk's Sons, Printers, 1869. 8vo, blue printed wrappers, 48 pp. First edition. Mild chipping and sunning to wrappers, damp staining along spine.
Stonewall's Scout A Story of the American Civil War
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1896. 8vo, 372pp, original blue cloth with gilt lettering. A Civil War novel by a British author, about a romance between Confederate soldier and a Northern woman. Ernest Baker's 1913 "Guide to the Best Fiction in English" note that this book "contains an admirable.....
Campfire and Battlefield an Illustrated History of the Campaigns and Conflicts of the Great Civil War
New York: Bryan, Taylor & Co, 1894. Folio, blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustration, 551 pp, profusely illustration. A very good, bright copy with wear to corners and edges, mild discoloration to covers, toning to pages.
Andersonville A Novel
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1955. First edition. Large 8vo, gray cloth, with dust jacket, 768 pp. First edition. Fading/offsetting to covers, mild soiling to covers, offsetting to endpapers, news clipping pasted to front endpaper, owner inscriptions to endpapers, slight page toning, dust jacket rubbed and soiled.....
Leaves from an Old Washington Diary 1854-1863
E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1943. First Edition. 8.5 x 5.75", brown hardcover with dust jacket, 256 pp. Written in journal format, this personal account of several years preceding and during the American Civil War documents the life of a widow raising 6 children in Virginia. Toning to pages, inscription.....
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